Common Council Proceedings

Thcre was a special meeting of tlie council Jiekl Mouday pyeuliig. Aid. Martin, trom the special committee ap polnteü at the last meeting to Investígate certiin charge, reported, recornmendlng lotiicnoy, md a warning for the future. Which was unanimously mlopted. Alü Swift offered the following rwotation: Reêolird, That the Ohalrman of the Street Llghtlug (Jomiuttltíe be aulhorlzed to notlfy the Ann Arbor Oan Conipany, that on umi after thi date, January luth, '87, the city wlll cease to ase gas for streel llghtlng purposes, and that any oontract tbat may cxlut hall be consldered nul I mul void. , Aid. Kearns moved that the gaaoline stKct liglits be also dlscontinued aftcr this dato. Which was carried. Mrs. Vaughan, a mine, who had taken care of Mr. atid Mrs. Ruggles through their late fatal illness with dlphtheria, having to burn up a lot of lier clothing on that account, had lier case presented to the couocil by Aid. Allniendinger, and the matter m referred to a special cominittee, cotiHisting of Aids. Koblton and Martin for investigation. The Ihjttor bond of Hetiry C Exinger and J. M. Koes was received and surttiea approved. A request of VV. Fr ed ScUlanderer to have two inoiiths of hls lii[iior tax reniitted was referred to the city attorney to report at the next regular meeting of the council. Aid. AUmendinger tuen aroae and explained the positlon In which the street railway ordinance atood, read copious extracta of the provlsions of street railway ordlnances of Detroit, Grand Kapids, Kalamazoo, etc, and ended up by offering the following : RvsoheJ, Tbat lf the Ann Arbor Street Railway compaoy wlll submlt an ordlnauce copled ader elther of tbe ordlnanoes of ellher Detroit, (ramt Kapldg. Kalamazo, Bay City, Port Huron or LaiiHlng, that tbe same wlll recelve our favorable coniiideratlon. Which was adopted. Why not adopt a resolution of this import: Resolvtd, That lf the hack and omnibus owners of tint) city wlll aabmlt an ordinance drafted after elther Detroit. Grand Kapids, Kalamazoo, etc , It wlll recelve our reupeotful coimlderation. What's sauce for the (foose should be aauce for the gauder, you kimvr. During his renmrks Aid. Allniendinger said that he had iiDderatood that another company was ready to apply for au ordinance and "one that was not afraid," to take liold of It. Thia ia uil that U wanted. lf there is another company that will accept au nrdinaiice that leaves everything to the caprices and whims of nny cotincil that muy be elected, trot 'em out. lf there ia a couipaiiy that will build a street raihvay in Aun Arbor on the same 0011dlÜOUt and provisions that thcy liave in Detroit with her 175.000 population, fetch 'em alou. Ann Arbor with a populatiou of less than 8,000, according to the cenaug of 1884, built as compactly as she is; located on huls and bluffs, over which it would be difticult to opérate atreet railway cars, does not stand out as a glltterlng bonanza for capitalii-ts to grab at in a atreet car sensc, and we opine it will be many a day before cars wlll be running on her streets, ordiuance or no ordinance - unless the electric motor provea to be a far more. ecouoinical melhod of propelling them than is the prevailing method of luirse power. lf Jackson, with her 18,000 nhahitants cannot realize three per cent. on the iiiouey nvuntsd in lier atreet car outlit, what would Ann Arbor do? It is altogether probable that many a thownd bright half-dollars will drop Inio ihc imitiiitcn'o hunl ;is doublc fare before our titizens will be blessed with a ride costing. only five nenls. Odb 1. l.'t [hui ouij th .t. :i etrat aar ordinance should be carefully drawn in favor of the city. Kight. But why not have the hack and omnibus ordinances ilrawn in a like marnier 1 Wnich is the best and cheapeat for the people, five cent rides or fifty cent rides ? No one intereat should so thoroughly control the council. The Mayor didn't propoae to be bulldnzed ! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, deir! They seemed to swoop down on the Recorder like a Dakota blizzard on a spring-shorn lamb. But bless your aoul, he didn't care ! Certainly not ! No more than did the Mayor for the criticisins of the newspapers ! The city of Lansing was referred to. Lansing Is the capital of the state. It wlll eventually be a large city like Columbus, Indianapolis, etc. It is growing faster than any city in Michigan to-tlay, In proportion to its size. It is spread out over a jtreat extent of coiuparatively flat land. It is llvided into two parta, Lansing proper and North Lansing, and if a street railway connecting these two eannot make it pay, then there is no route in the state over which itcan pay. Ann Arbor has no great ludiré before her; she will never have over 15,000 inhabitants and we doubt if she reacties those figures in many years - say during the llfe-time of the chlldren of to-day. 80 it will readily be seen that in a street car sense there in little ooinparUon betweeu the two places. The only place near the size of and with similar advantages to Ann Arbor which Aid. Allniendinger had heard from was Alpena, and lie passed that city by with the reraark that its city railway ordiuacne had provUions that luis city would not care to adopt. The cities of Adrián, Hillsdale, Coldwater, Pontiac and Flint could be compared with Ann Arbor in this respect. Wonder on what conditions a street railway company would provide those cities with cheap transit Jos. Kabbit was sent to Pontiac last Friday, as an insane criminal, by Circuit Court Commisaioner McKernan. Repeated atteuipts have been made to have Judge Harriman send tliis man to the insane asylum as a pauper at the expense of the county, but the Judge has refused so to do becatise Ka b bit 's mother and family were said to be well to do, and that lie was not a pauper. He is sent tliere now on the charge of being a criminal because he tlircw a ptone through a store wludow in the vlllage of Dexter gome time ajo. 'i' he re is no doubt of the insanity of tliig man, but it is considered a shame by those familiar with the ciicuiustances, that wtth relaiives so able he should be cared tor at the expense of the people. Among the members of Vigilan t Hose ID., that has resolved to disband, are some veterans in the service. Chai. A. Kdwards has "i un with the boys " for upwards of twenty years, beinjf one of tlie Original members of the Ladies' Hose ( 'n. , once a famous organization of the department. Harry Colé, Kmmet Booth, Geo. Hiirrcll, Jack Kinney and John Fischer have eacli been witli the cooipany elght or ten years. Jolin Burg will refurnisu his Shoe Store for the Spring trade, and add a carpet ronm wliere he will put on sale an entirely Xew Stock o f Carpets.